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Gene Bertram Krupa, 32, is one of the Chicago boys who practiced jazz in the 19205, and one of the few who turned it to commercial success. His father, a Chicago alderman, sent him to a Catholic college to study for the priesthood, but within two years Gene Krupa was beating it out in Midwestern bands. He rode to fame with Benny Goodman's orchestra, battering frenetically and taking elaborate syncopated cadenzas. He devised three facial expressions to fit his moods: for dreamy music, "my eyes look far away and my jaw drops"; for speedier work, "I look like...
...shrewd New York politician who looks like a man-about-town-a very leisurely, prosperous sort of town. Looking at his slick, prematurely grey hair, his invariably dapper dress, or the dapper water colors he paints for relaxation, nobody would think he had ever been an alderman. Still less does he seem a hard-bitten politico with a good liberal record who has beaten Tammany in seven out of eight elections. Oldest of nine children, son of a wealthy New Yorker, he was in the Navy in World War I for six seasick months, transferred to the Army, fought...
Besides his university work and his services to the national government, Professor Merriam has entered politics in Chicago, serving as city alderman for six years, running as candidate for mayor, and serving as chairman of the Commission on City Expenditures...
...Minneapolis, a fiscally-minded alderman urged parking meters for boulevards and lakesides favored by automobile spooners. City fathers spurned the plan, and Park Superintendent C. A. Bossen cried: "We have to encourage romance, not make it an expensive luxury...
...ALEX. EDMISON Alderman, City of Montreal Montreal...